UltimateDroid 3.3.0 CDMA Desire download
In followup to my last post, I thought I'd post a link to the ROM I am using on my HTC Desire.
Here is the link.
Sure hope BD comes back someday!
UltimateDroid – Where did you go?
I have an Android phone - an HTC Desire on the US Cellular network. I really like my phone. Shortly after getting it I decided to root my device and give some custom ROMs a shot. It wasn't long before I found my favorite, the UltimateDroid (UD).
There are two big reasons I run UltimateDroid: Performance and Battery Life. After running on UD for a few months, US Cellular finally released the FroYo version of their stock Desire ROM. At this point I was running Gingerbread with UD on my phone, but I thought I'd give the new USCC FroYo update a shot to see if it was comparable (and see if Sense was still worth it). AS soon as I booted the new stock I quickly remembered why I like UD so much. The stock was far less performant. Visual effects were slow and laggy; apps launched much slower; there were more than 40 processes running; and the battery life was a lot less. I quickly returned to UD.
Some of the other smaller things that I liked about UD was the features, and the quick release schedule (I was a nightly build subscriber) that often offered the newest features and performance tweaks.
As the version numbers climbed from 2.4 to eventually 3.3.0, I began to really like UD and its community. I'd visit often, trying out new nightly builds. This is really the reason I like Android so much better than iOS -- the customization that open source offers is unmatched.
But then something sad began to happen. There were no updates for a week; 2 weeks; 3 weeks -- the blackdroid had taken breaks in the past but then -- 1 month; 2 months -- nothing. Not a word from anyone on the site! And then: the site went down. www.udrom.com no longer made a successful connection. And soon after, it no longer showed up in the Google Search results for UltimateDroid.
What happened? I've read rumors on various sites saying that he may have been a victim of extreme weather (maybe a tornado?) and lost his house or something. But nothing was certain.
Is this the end of UltimateDroid ROMs? Is the blackdroid done developing ROMs?
I certainly hope not. If you have any information regarding the state of the UltimateDroid project or blackdroid's plans for the future, please leave a comment. I'd like to help if there is anything that I can do. I am an aspiring developer after all (although I've never done any Android dev).